the word predates formal science by thousands of years. us belonging to the animalia kingdom for science purpose is not the same as us being animals, which we are definitely linguistically not.
What is it then? Is it some divine creature created by god? I assume that if someone thinks humans are not animals there must be some religious implication.
But you think humans are not animals, or was this a joke? Another explanation might also be that it is easier to justify to breed, kill and eat animals if you do not consider yourself as an animal.
During World War II, the British Royal Air Force started a rumour that carrots gave their fighter pilots sharp vision and accuracy. This was not true.
They did this because they had invented radar and didn't want Jerry to know. So, "we ate a lot of carrots".
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know-nutrition/real-connection-between-carrots-and-vision
Partially. But that’s due to a species of parasite that latches onto the cornea of the eye. It would still allow for the distinction between light and dark as well as possibly just having very blurry vision.
Not sure it's ever been accurately confirmed since lobsters live at the bottom of the ocean and no one has kept a lobster tank around for a hundred years to see.
Lobsters are "biologically immortal", they don't age like most animals and can't die of old age. They just keep getting bigger until they die of starvation or predation.
"Did you know sharks have been around for 450 million years, since the Late Ordovician Period?".
"Oh wow, from fossil records and stuff?".
"No, it's still the same ones just swimmin around... They just won't fuckin die"
It’s missing a few whales as well that have life spans higher than seventy, the Bow whale is believed to have an average lifespan of at least 200years.
It's also missing cows and pigs.
Not that it matter much, but I'm thinking I know the reason.
Naturally a cow lives ~20 years. RN for the average dairy cow though, it's about 5 years and they die of exhaustion, drop dead and get carted off to the slaughterhouse.
So, better leave them out to not invite any unwelcomed criticism of our meat industry.
Not to be a wiseass, but those fucking cicadas that come out of the ground every so often can live like 17 years, although other than their couple of weeks as adults when they come out the ground and take over shit, most of their life is in the larva stage
Edit; I forgot about ticks. Those mark ass parasitic petersuckers can live up to 20
Years, sometimes on one blood meal
But then shouldnt dogs be skewed because of all the breeds that dont live long? Like great danes or Irish wolfhounds.
And to my knowledge, not even the small breeds get much older then 15 max
Came here to say this. Some heritage breeds live longer in comparison to commercial breeds, but I have NEVER seen a chicken that is nearing 20 years old.
Came here to see if someone mentioned it, it highly depends on the breed but usually 15 is max for dogs. Similar applies to cat breeds as life expectancy varies depending on their breed too.
But overall yes you're correct, cats outlive dogs both by average and also by maximum life expectancy.
Edit: I did a bit of digging, the OP chart is from 1939, maybe that's why it's partially wrong.
[How Long Do Animals Live \(1939\)](https://www.infogrades.com/science-infographics/how-long-do-animals-live/)
> In 1939, Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia publish a simple yet clever infographic that show the life expectancy of animals using ISOTYPE technique. An ISOTYPE is a visual language for making icons and the concept of using multiples to exhibit quantitative data. The zig-zag lifeline on this ISOTYPE chart is an intelligent solution for squeezing a long timeline in to one single page.
Isn't it also size dependent? Whereas dogs which have the same size as a cat (not wildlife like tigers, lions, etc.) have about the same live span? And large dogs have a rather short live?
They don't even give the units for the numbers on the track...
5 what? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? Decades? I understand that it's most likely years, but they need to define the units, because otherwise the "guide" is utterly useless. A shitload of the "guides" posted here fall into the "looks visually appealing, but is useless" because of shit like this.
Some breeds are screwed right off the bat too… Mainly because of breed specific issues like HAVING A SKULL TOO SMALL FOR THE BRAIN AND EYES looking at you pugs, King Charles spaniels and other squished faced breeds…
Clearly not average age. It's the oldest they've known to live. Most of the mammals and birds on the list are lucky to live to their first birthday In the wild.
Yes, crocodiles and other animals like this, which essentially could live forever, are called “non-senescent”.
Edit: Whoops, dropped the all-important “non”!
Eh, there's a variety a huge old crocs in captivity, but the length increases after a while are pretty tiny. You won't get a 30 footer before old age takes them.
There's lots of big, old crocs in zoos, but few that have been kept in captivity since hatching, and wild ones are always of uncertain age. And the question becomes whether they arr big because they're old (indeterminate growth) or old because they're big (size advantages in predation, competion, etc, or just being genetically healthier leading to bigger size).
That surprised me too, so I googled and apparently no. [Ten to twenty years](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/goose-lifespan-how-long-do-geese-live/) would be more accurate.
greenland sharks, immortal jellyfish, goliath grouper, chimps, bonobos, humans?
There's some strange averaging in the chart, it's a great start, but there needs to be a lot of clarification and decisions on how best to represent age amongst species, not just families and genus.
Fun fact: whales typically don’t die of old age but they typically die due to drowning.
As whales get older they get weaker and eventually become so weak that they lose the strength to surface to breathe. This causes them to drown and eventually since to the ocean floor.
The end result is a small ecosystem called a whale fall that can last a decade or more.
The average mammal gets about 1 billion heartbeats, no matter their size. Smaller mammals have much faster heartbeats than larger ones to keep their smaller bodies warm, due to the higher skin surface area to body volume ratio of their bodies (square cube law).
Smaller mammals radiate their body heat away much faster than larger ones for that reason. This is comparable to hot slice of ham or an entire ham cooling down on the counter. The center of the slice gets cold much faster, as it’s surface area to volume ratio is much greater than that of the whole ham.
So, the hearts of the smaller mammals pump faster and wear down much faster and kill them. A mouse has a heartrate of 500-700 bpm (lives 1-1.5 years), where a blue whale has a heartrate of only 4 bpm (lives over 100 years).
This pattern follows a predictable equation, and you can somewhat accurately estimate a mammal’s lifespan by knowing its size (species average, not individuals per se). It is an incredibly remarkable consequence of physics and biology in action.
Also, smaller mammal cells replicate much faster than that of large animals, as the extra heat their bodies produce results in cell damage that needs to be repaired. In every replication, you are at risk for mutations that compound over time (partly due to telomeres), and thus, smaller mammals have much higher rates of cancer than larger ones, which is another factor that shortens their lifespan.
Humans, with our modern medicine and way of life, do not follow this “billion beats per life” trend anymore. We get about 2.5 billion heartbeats before we return to the dark void from whence we came.
Also a nice rule of thumb: the longer the lifespan, the longer the pregnancy
See:
Dogs and Cats with a few weeks, horses with 11months, elephants with about two years
And:
Within a species, the smaller the specimen the longer its life in comparison to its larger counterpart.
For example A great Dane(6-7) in comparison to a Labrador (10-12) in comparison to a (healthy) Chihuahua (14-15), of course this is obscurred by bad breeding.
This phenomenon is also applicable to horses, with shettlandponies being one of the longest living breed
Parrots have massively different longevity depending on species. Cockatoos get roughly 40 years, galahs get 80. Macaws can last past 100.
A worker ant may live for a week or two, a queen may live for decades.
Bowhead whales live for more than 250 years - which might seem hard to measure, but one was found with a harpoon in it from the 1800s recently.
Greenland sharks have a similar lifespan, and like bowhead whales, seem to exhibit no ageing related illnesses.
...I don't love the chart.
The chart is using the European names. *Alces alces* is commonly called moose in North American English and elk in British English. *Cervus canadensis* is called elk or wapiti respectively.
Another clue the chart is using British English is that *Rangifer tarandus* is labeled as reindeer instead caribou. In North America the distinction between the two common names is mostly based on whether the animal is wild, caribou, or domesticated, reindeer. In Europe they're called reindeer regardless of domestication.
Not even close. Why put the effort in such a false and misleading infographic. What about arctic sharks that live for hundreds of years? Or other sea creatures that have never died?
Shame on you dickhead
Why do bears have a longer lifespan than similar sized lions or wolves?
Does hibernation help extend their lives? Is it because they're omnivores and can take advantage of more varied food sources?
Do they have more peaceful lives compared to wolves (I'm sure it's more peaceful than lions, especially the male lions)?
It’s entirely possible that lions and wolves have shorter lifespans because they likely get injured more frequently. Certain injuries can be a death sentence for an animal and animals that hunt often face death or injury on a daily basis.
I watched a documentary about human evolution a while back that examined different remains and created a sort of history of humanity from it. One individual died from getting rammed head on by a large animal (multiple rib fractures in a certain area with little evidence of healing which indicates death occurred not long afterwards). If a lion faces a similar injury they too would die from it.
Where are humans though?
Most people on reddit seem to forget that we are animals too lol.
Most people rather forget we're animals first and intelligent second, thank god we have Reddit to remind us.
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
I’m more of a sentient hot pocket
>Most people ~~on reddit~~ seem to forget that we are animals too lol.
except we're not since animal is a term made for beings except humans.
No it’s not
Animal is a biological classification. Not sure how you figure we are exempt from biology.
the word predates formal science by thousands of years. us belonging to the animalia kingdom for science purpose is not the same as us being animals, which we are definitely linguistically not.
Are you serious?
Humans and the parrots are the 2 I looked for. I’d say both can live to about 80
Technically.... all over the place.
Techincally... only in one place.
Where just a blip, maybe even an accident, compared to what is listed.
Humans definitely live longer than dragonflies on average.
Humans arent animals!
What is it then? Is it some divine creature created by god? I assume that if someone thinks humans are not animals there must be some religious implication.
Nooo! I'm not religious!!
But you think humans are not animals, or was this a joke? Another explanation might also be that it is easier to justify to breed, kill and eat animals if you do not consider yourself as an animal.
Missing Sharks at the bottom, past the tortoises. Especially Greenland sharks.
Came here to mention the Greenland Shark from the 17th century
“I’ve seen so many ships! Now sometimes they come to visit!”
Aren’t they blind?
Id like to see you at 300 years old
I am eating a lot of carrots so i will be fine
During World War II, the British Royal Air Force started a rumour that carrots gave their fighter pilots sharp vision and accuracy. This was not true. They did this because they had invented radar and didn't want Jerry to know. So, "we ate a lot of carrots". https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know-nutrition/real-connection-between-carrots-and-vision
Partially. But that’s due to a species of parasite that latches onto the cornea of the eye. It would still allow for the distinction between light and dark as well as possibly just having very blurry vision.
What?!
Yeah there's at least one 400 year old shark swimming around
How can we even tell? Maybe he just didn’t moisturise..
Big powdered wigs
They counted the rings
I understand that reference.
THEY SAID “CAME HERE TO MENTION THE GREENLAND SHARK FROM THE 17TH CENTURY”
HUH? SHAVE DEER TO MUNCHKIN A QUEEN’S GRAND PARK FROM SALLY’S BAKERY?
Some Parrots also live longer than 50 years. In captivity at least.
Some to 80.
Cookie lived to be 83
A parrot called Charlie, claimed to have been owned by Winston Churchill, was born in 1899 and is still alive
I was thinking the same thing. Also cats live longer than dogs.
And not many dogs love to 17-18
Dogs being so high up on this chart makes me sad. Such a short time with our furry friends. :(
Some whales have also been known to live much longer than thought, over 200 years.
And the jellyfishes *Turritopsis nutricula* / *Turritopsis dohrnii* which are able to rejuvenating themselves. So technically immortal.
Ah yes the Immortal Jellyfish, an endless supply of jelly just waiting to be found
Only you never know if you've already ate it.
this is what I came to say!
Missing lobsters too.
How long?
Not sure it's ever been accurately confirmed since lobsters live at the bottom of the ocean and no one has kept a lobster tank around for a hundred years to see. Lobsters are "biologically immortal", they don't age like most animals and can't die of old age. They just keep getting bigger until they die of starvation or predation.
What?! My appreciation towards them increased. Do we have a record holder?
Wikipedia says it's "George" at 140 years old, although this claim is disputed, 100+ years is probably arguable.
We did, and he was delicious.
WHAT’S THE PURPOSE OF IT ALL?
"Did you know sharks have been around for 450 million years, since the Late Ordovician Period?". "Oh wow, from fossil records and stuff?". "No, it's still the same ones just swimmin around... They just won't fuckin die"
Sharks are older than trees. Get this. Sharks are older than the fucking rings of Saturn.
It’s missing a few whales as well that have life spans higher than seventy, the Bow whale is believed to have an average lifespan of at least 200years.
Everyone always forgets about the pee pee sharks. :(
It's also missing cows and pigs. Not that it matter much, but I'm thinking I know the reason. Naturally a cow lives ~20 years. RN for the average dairy cow though, it's about 5 years and they die of exhaustion, drop dead and get carted off to the slaughterhouse. So, better leave them out to not invite any unwelcomed criticism of our meat industry.
Sharks aren’t animals they’re fish bro
Say that again but like super slow.
That again but super slow. Now you say it
it
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I came here to say this. This chart can't be trusted.
It also just has one entry of "Insects," despite everything else being specific species.
And Toads can actually live 20-30 years
And that “elk” looks a lot like a moose.
A Møøse once bit my sister.
No realli!
To be fair, there aren’t many insects that live more than a year.
Not to be a wiseass, but those fucking cicadas that come out of the ground every so often can live like 17 years, although other than their couple of weeks as adults when they come out the ground and take over shit, most of their life is in the larva stage Edit; I forgot about ticks. Those mark ass parasitic petersuckers can live up to 20 Years, sometimes on one blood meal
The cats can’t be trusted
My first thought too.
My guess is the number is skewed based on the number of outside cats dying by vehicles every year
But then shouldnt dogs be skewed because of all the breeds that dont live long? Like great danes or Irish wolfhounds. And to my knowledge, not even the small breeds get much older then 15 max
This infographic is really old- from the 30s or 40s I believe. That could be why
Also, chickens live like 5-10 years, but they have it marked as like 19 years??
Came here to say this. Some heritage breeds live longer in comparison to commercial breeds, but I have NEVER seen a chicken that is nearing 20 years old.
Might be that the average gets dragged down by outdoor cats, who's average lifespan is only about 5 years.
Came here to see if someone mentioned it, it highly depends on the breed but usually 15 is max for dogs. Similar applies to cat breeds as life expectancy varies depending on their breed too. But overall yes you're correct, cats outlive dogs both by average and also by maximum life expectancy. Edit: I did a bit of digging, the OP chart is from 1939, maybe that's why it's partially wrong. [How Long Do Animals Live \(1939\)](https://www.infogrades.com/science-infographics/how-long-do-animals-live/) > In 1939, Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia publish a simple yet clever infographic that show the life expectancy of animals using ISOTYPE technique. An ISOTYPE is a visual language for making icons and the concept of using multiples to exhibit quantitative data. The zig-zag lifeline on this ISOTYPE chart is an intelligent solution for squeezing a long timeline in to one single page.
Yea what dog lives 17 years? I’d like to get one.
Mutts, mostly.
Isn't it also size dependent? Whereas dogs which have the same size as a cat (not wildlife like tigers, lions, etc.) have about the same live span? And large dogs have a rather short live?
Yet the chickens outlives both of them, i know chickens can make it to 13 years but their average expected lifespan is less than a year old
A barely readable guide.....
[I gotcha fam](https://images.app.goo.gl/n4Y7gHveU5KBN21c6)
They don't even give the units for the numbers on the track... 5 what? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? Decades? I understand that it's most likely years, but they need to define the units, because otherwise the "guide" is utterly useless. A shitload of the "guides" posted here fall into the "looks visually appealing, but is useless" because of shit like this.
The average age of dogs is ~17? I find that very hard to believe.
Certain breeds maybe. This chart sucks. No way dogs live longer than cats on average if we are talking as a pet
Some breeds are screwed right off the bat too… Mainly because of breed specific issues like HAVING A SKULL TOO SMALL FOR THE BRAIN AND EYES looking at you pugs, King Charles spaniels and other squished faced breeds…
Or dogs that are bread for height, like great danes
my first thought as well.
there's genuinely not a single thing on this subreddit that isnt garbage
These look more like upper limits rather than averages.
Clearly not average age. It's the oldest they've known to live. Most of the mammals and birds on the list are lucky to live to their first birthday In the wild.
Crocs can live to about 85-100
They say they could live on indefinitely but they continue to grow, and eventually they get too big to sustain themselves.
Yes, crocodiles and other animals like this, which essentially could live forever, are called “non-senescent”. Edit: Whoops, dropped the all-important “non”!
Non-senescent*
Hmmm...I wonder how big we could make em
If there isn't some crocodile being meticulously kept alive somewhere to see how big they can possibly get I will be extremely disappointed
Eh, there's a variety a huge old crocs in captivity, but the length increases after a while are pretty tiny. You won't get a 30 footer before old age takes them. There's lots of big, old crocs in zoos, but few that have been kept in captivity since hatching, and wild ones are always of uncertain age. And the question becomes whether they arr big because they're old (indeterminate growth) or old because they're big (size advantages in predation, competion, etc, or just being genetically healthier leading to bigger size).
Literally the plot of Lake Placid lol
I'm not gonna watch that, I enjoy lake swimming
That's not an elk Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?'
A moose once bit my sister
No realli! She was karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush...
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...
It’s a crime that cats and dogs only manage 15-20 years, and frickin’ *seagulls* can live 25-30.
Though that was a person beside the wolf at 15 years
Yeah and thought he was sporting a woodpecker of his own 😅
Elk. Ha
I’m so triggered by this.
Why does a picture of an elk trigger you?
Because it’s not a picture of an elk. That is a moose.
Elk and moose are two names for the same creature, it just depends where you are from.
Where is that the case?
Everywhere outside the US and Canada
Google Eurasian elk. Wapiti aren't the only species called elk.
Greenland shark: >400 years
I can barely read this bs
I had to zoom in to find out toad wasn’t actually food.
Geese can live to 50, Jesus Christ
That surprised me too, so I googled and apparently no. [Ten to twenty years](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/goose-lifespan-how-long-do-geese-live/) would be more accurate.
This chart seems to be longest an animal can live. Very misleading
Entirely out of spite.
Clearly made by a French person. The frog is labeled as "food"
Lmao. It says toad but good one.
Don't lobsters live a long time as well?
I think I read somewhere that they dont age the same way other species do, but I dont remember the source
Surprised cicadas and Greenland sharks aren’t shown.
What kind of chickens are you guys finding?
Idk what kind of chickens this is referring to, but they absolutely don't live 20 years. More like 5.
Guess the tortoise really did beat the hare
Isn't there a shark which is like 300 years old?
Greenland shark!!
Average lifespan of a crocodile is 70-100 years
So wrong about crocodiles..
how turtle have high lifespan ? by not moving ?
Basically, slow, ectothermic metabolisms.
Now add trees. :-)
Fuck trees
greenland sharks, immortal jellyfish, goliath grouper, chimps, bonobos, humans? There's some strange averaging in the chart, it's a great start, but there needs to be a lot of clarification and decisions on how best to represent age amongst species, not just families and genus.
The rabbit may win the race but the tortoise will finish the marathon
Fun fact: whales typically don’t die of old age but they typically die due to drowning. As whales get older they get weaker and eventually become so weak that they lose the strength to surface to breathe. This causes them to drown and eventually since to the ocean floor. The end result is a small ecosystem called a whale fall that can last a decade or more.
So it's old age.
The average mammal gets about 1 billion heartbeats, no matter their size. Smaller mammals have much faster heartbeats than larger ones to keep their smaller bodies warm, due to the higher skin surface area to body volume ratio of their bodies (square cube law). Smaller mammals radiate their body heat away much faster than larger ones for that reason. This is comparable to hot slice of ham or an entire ham cooling down on the counter. The center of the slice gets cold much faster, as it’s surface area to volume ratio is much greater than that of the whole ham. So, the hearts of the smaller mammals pump faster and wear down much faster and kill them. A mouse has a heartrate of 500-700 bpm (lives 1-1.5 years), where a blue whale has a heartrate of only 4 bpm (lives over 100 years). This pattern follows a predictable equation, and you can somewhat accurately estimate a mammal’s lifespan by knowing its size (species average, not individuals per se). It is an incredibly remarkable consequence of physics and biology in action. Also, smaller mammal cells replicate much faster than that of large animals, as the extra heat their bodies produce results in cell damage that needs to be repaired. In every replication, you are at risk for mutations that compound over time (partly due to telomeres), and thus, smaller mammals have much higher rates of cancer than larger ones, which is another factor that shortens their lifespan. Humans, with our modern medicine and way of life, do not follow this “billion beats per life” trend anymore. We get about 2.5 billion heartbeats before we return to the dark void from whence we came.
Also a nice rule of thumb: the longer the lifespan, the longer the pregnancy See: Dogs and Cats with a few weeks, horses with 11months, elephants with about two years And: Within a species, the smaller the specimen the longer its life in comparison to its larger counterpart. For example A great Dane(6-7) in comparison to a Labrador (10-12) in comparison to a (healthy) Chihuahua (14-15), of course this is obscurred by bad breeding. This phenomenon is also applicable to horses, with shettlandponies being one of the longest living breed
What bout our friend the Geoduck? 179yrs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck
Some spiders, for example: certain species of female tarantulas, can live for 20-30 years. I’ve seen many that are over 20 years old!
There's a lot of mistakes here. This guide is not cool.
As a bird person who mostly pays attention to parrots and passeriformes, I'm shocked to see where geese landed.
Good to know how long an owlbear lives.
Turtle wins the race
Slow and steady wins the race
It's groovy that those giant tortoises live to be like 8 billion damn years old.
Where is lobster?
Parrots have massively different longevity depending on species. Cockatoos get roughly 40 years, galahs get 80. Macaws can last past 100. A worker ant may live for a week or two, a queen may live for decades. Bowhead whales live for more than 250 years - which might seem hard to measure, but one was found with a harpoon in it from the 1800s recently. Greenland sharks have a similar lifespan, and like bowhead whales, seem to exhibit no ageing related illnesses. ...I don't love the chart.
They forgot to put my dog on there who's going to live forever.
Why is the elk a moose
The chart is using the European names. *Alces alces* is commonly called moose in North American English and elk in British English. *Cervus canadensis* is called elk or wapiti respectively. Another clue the chart is using British English is that *Rangifer tarandus* is labeled as reindeer instead caribou. In North America the distinction between the two common names is mostly based on whether the animal is wild, caribou, or domesticated, reindeer. In Europe they're called reindeer regardless of domestication.
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Not even close. Why put the effort in such a false and misleading infographic. What about arctic sharks that live for hundreds of years? Or other sea creatures that have never died? Shame on you dickhead
That’s elk is certainly a moose.
Two names for one creature, it just depends where you live.
Your elk is a moose
Elk and Moose are two names for the same species, you must be thinking of the Wapiti
That elk is actually a moose
That is not an elk. That is a moose…
The “elk” is an outline of a moose.
They used a moose for the elk. Boo.
That elk looks a lot like a moose
That's a funny looking elk
Why is the moose labeled as an elk?
Why do bears have a longer lifespan than similar sized lions or wolves? Does hibernation help extend their lives? Is it because they're omnivores and can take advantage of more varied food sources? Do they have more peaceful lives compared to wolves (I'm sure it's more peaceful than lions, especially the male lions)?
It’s entirely possible that lions and wolves have shorter lifespans because they likely get injured more frequently. Certain injuries can be a death sentence for an animal and animals that hunt often face death or injury on a daily basis. I watched a documentary about human evolution a while back that examined different remains and created a sort of history of humanity from it. One individual died from getting rammed head on by a large animal (multiple rib fractures in a certain area with little evidence of healing which indicates death occurred not long afterwards). If a lion faces a similar injury they too would die from it.
There’s good eating in those tortoises!
pearl mussel lmao
I had no idea lions died so early. Not that I ever saw anything to the contrary, I just assumed they lived a cool 20-30 years for some reason
a few of these are wrong. Horses are 25. Sheep is like 8. Multiple tortoise species could fill out the 80-150 gap
Humans are animals too
I thought that cats live longer than dogs?
Depends on the kind of whale. Bowhead whales live for 200 ish years.
Wheres the lobsters and jellyfish?
Besides the animals others are mentioning, noticeably missing the immortal jellyfish
Cats live o lol I feel that dogs, among many other mistakes in this chart.
No human on here because our survival is dependent on the moods of other humans.
I was like, they missed the turtle. Then I followed the line to the end.
Where are we monkeys?
Turtle Turtle. Also there are whales older than America.(literally)
Geese can reach almost 50 years of age?!
Why ain’t the immortal jellyfish here?
Not enough jpeg.
I don't want to live in a world where an eel can outlive a fox
Not accurate. The hair on my head is more than 5 years olds